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Old 17th April 2022, 09:05   #21
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I tried it in the early days. It worked out very expensive as the glow plugs became gummed up. Engine sounded like a bag of nails. I had a £600 bill as a result. Worked fine on long runs, but short journeys do not work. AVOID. I ran my Peugeot 406 2.2HDI on new veggie oil and it went like a rocket. No problems!
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Old 17th April 2022, 17:44   #22
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I tried it in the early days. It worked out very expensive as the glow plugs became gummed up. Engine sounded like a bag of nails. I had a £600 bill as a result. Worked fine on long runs, but short journeys do not work. AVOID. I ran my Peugeot 406 2.2HDI on new veggie oil and it went like a rocket. No problems!
Great! Thanks Rob! Someone who's actually tried it!
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Old 18th April 2022, 14:52   #23
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Sorry but no. Just don't. I've seen first hand the end results of 75s being ran on everything here in Northern Ireland.

From kero, home heating oil, cooking oil etc, every one of them ended up needing engines within a year or so. I should show you my Facebook and Instagram dm's in the last few months with owners who have ruined fantastic cars doing exactly this.

I've a couple of spare diesel engines sitting myself in storage to future proof my fleet because of the dangers of acid washed diesel here in Northern Ireland, bad fuel is a real danger and why I do my daily diesel fuel filters every 6 months now.

Find yourself genuine red diesel if you want to save some money, but make sure its class A2 Road standard and not class D which is heating oil specification essentially. Remember it's a tax dodge and you will get fined pretty hard if caught.

And if anyone says red diesel isn't the same as white diesel, well if its class A2 it is.

If you can't afford to run the car, it's time to sell the car. Hard facts. Times are tough. Trust me, I'm unemployed bar a 10 hour week part time job at the minute. But I'd never throw cooking oil or other dung into my 75s having seen the damage it does to them.
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My old 400, 45 and 600 all ran great on SVO (new oil) - fond memories of taking a few big drums in the boot for a holiday to Cornwall during a fuel shortage many years ago

In winter starting was a bit slow so I'd have to 'water' it down with about 1/4 of a tank of Diesel to 3/4 of a tank of veggie - but in summer she was fine with 100% oil.
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As already said Veg oil is to thick for our common rail cars sadly but tbh for a good ten years now new veg oil has tracked the price of diesel anyway so it hasn't really been worth the risk.



My car previous to Nigel was a 3L Merc E300 and it loved the veg even had a factory installed fuel pre heater but it could guzzle alright literally used to be able to watch the fuel gauge drop in real time it was a straight 6 beasty with 160 max on the speedo dial that it could actually get near. The car before that was a BMW 525tds which again was great on veggie with lovely smooth engine even at 300,000+++ but eventually the HP pump seals starting going among other things, they also had a regulator needle in the pumps that could not handle any moisture and was worn so used to "hunt".
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My old 400, 45 and 600 all ran great on SVO (new oil) - fond memories of taking a few big drums in the boot for a holiday to Cornwall during a fuel shortage many years ago

In winter starting was a bit slow so I'd have to 'water' it down with about 1/4 of a tank of Diesel to 3/4 of a tank of veggie - but in summer she was fine with 100% oil.

HAHA, lurking in the big asda on delivery day for the 20L KTC barrels did ya?


We used to add about 2L of petrol to a full tank of veggie in the depths of winter to help starting.
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